> I have yet to figure out what the 'topmost build error' is. The > Gentoo website doesn't offer much in the way of error messages. > If someone could post some links/sources for beginners to read, > I would be appreciative.
In your output you'll generally see errors generated by gcc or ld, sometimes things like missing libraries or whatever. In this scenario, consider the 'topmost error' to begin at the gcc command line used to compile followed by the error messages themselves, all the way down to the reported 'include topmost error' message. Sometimes the error will come when executing the configure script; in this case the whole configure dump is sometimes useful, but actually what helps even more is the config.log file that was generated when configure was running. This will be found in the /var/tmp/portage/[package]/work/[package] directory. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
